João Melo

Maria spends her days working in her family’s noisy metal factory. While being oppressed by male violence, she is also responsible for caring for her sister-in-law and niece, both existentially depleted. A revolution starts to boil within her.

In a digital age where everything is fast and efficient, human beings are unable to develop meaningful relationships. Lia, an unconforming young woman from this well-formed society, struggles with the loss of her father and finds herself in a depressive state. After receiving an offer that promises to solve all her problems, Lia will have to make a choice: the comfort of the virtual world, in which she will have total control over her life or the real world with the virtues and difficulties inherent to everyday life.

L’histoire retrace la vie, en 1940 d’Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Consul Général du Portugal à Bordeaux qui en pleine débâcle française refusa de suivre les ordres de Salazar et délivra plus de 30.000 visas à toutes personnes menacées souhaitant fuir la France. Parmi elles, il sauva ainsi du joug nazi 10 000 juifs, des artistes, des hommes politiques, des inconnus. Destitué de ses fonctions, il survivra pauvrement. Il sera déclaré « Juste parmi les Nations » en 1966 et réhabilité en 1980 par les autorités portugaises.

A mysterious shadow unveiling a female figure walking naked towards us in the desert. In another sequence, the same woman speaks on the phone, talking about the end of the world. In a third moment, a couple prepares breakfast in their apartment, with the same woman from the previous sequences embracing a baby. What will these three narrative moments have in common? What is the relationship between them? Everything and nothing. Is the answer in the woman’s emotional words on the phone? Or in her helpless expression when walking naked? Or in the happiness she seems to find in the domestic routine? Perhaps the charm is really not in trying to decipher, but in getting lost in this visual and impressionistic poem, this shake that slowly expands in our senses. Max Planck, one of the founders of the ancient quantum physics theory, said that energy has a discontinuous structure and can only exist under the form of fragments. These are the fragments that hide here an ethereal promise.

A boy and a girl fall in love. But on the night they met, she was drunk and stoned and he took advantage of her. Although she does not remember almost anything from that night, she remembers something that may compromise their relationship.

Antonio s'est toujours senti différent des autres et quitte très tôt sa campagne pour devenir un artiste. Après des premières années difficiles, le succès finit par frapper le chanteur au look flamboyant. Rien ne peut alors l'arrêter dans son ascension des charts, malgré les préjugés auxquels il doit fait face. D'après une histoire vraie.

According to Sigmund Freud: “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways”. “Umbral” materialises the moral dilemma of whether there is a cause and effect link between trauma and criminal behaviour.

The Portuguese Carnation Revolution of April 25th seen by a women perspective.

Political comedy series about the political advisers of the ministerial cabinets and the opposition and their connivance with economic and political interests that determine how decisions are made.

Eva Lemos lives a stable and seemingly happy life, until Marco, her husband, disappears suddenly after knowing that she is pregnant. Marco steals all her money, leaving her homeless and without a job, while Eva learns that Marco was only with her out of interest and lives a double life with Maria. Hatred and revolt take Eva into a journey that transforms her deeply... and not for the better.